Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment

 

Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment

 

Teachers should be skilled in:

·         Choosing assessment methods for instructional decisions.

·         Developing assessment methods appropriate for instructional decisions.

·         Administering, scoring, and interpreting the results of externally produced and teacher-produced assessment methods.

·         Using assessment results when making decisions about individual students, planning teaching, developing curriculum, and school improvement.

·         Developing valid pupil grading procedures, which use pupil assessment.

·         Communicating assessment results to students, parents, other lay audiences, and other educators.

·         Recognizing unethical, illegal, and otherwise inappropriate assessment methods and uses of assessment information.